A Beginner's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care

Helen Aveyard

Helen Aveyard is a Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, in the subject of Adult Nursing where she is involved in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Prior to this she held a research scholarship in Health Care Ethics at King's College University of London where she undertook a doctoral study examining the ways in which informed consent is addressed by nurses prior to nursing care procedures. 

Helen is a registered nurse and has had several years clinical experience caring for people with HIV/AIDS. She has presented and published widely on nursing ethics and health care research, including the popular books Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care (now in its 5th Edition), A Beginner’s Guide to Evidence Based Practice (2nd Edition) with Pam Sharp and A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing with Pam Sharp and Mary Woolliams. A postgraduate text A Post-graduate’s Guide to Doing a Literature Review’ was published in early 2016, written with co-authors Sheila Payne and Nancy Preston.

James Carolan

Dr James Carolan is a Lecturer in Biology at Maynooth University in Ireland, where he has taught since 2011. Prior to that he taught at UCD and Trinity College Dublin, also in Ireland.

Sabrina Tosi

Dr Sabrina Tosi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences at Brunel University London, where she is Director of Teaching & Learning. Previously, she has been Programme Lead of the Biomedical Sciences BSc programme and before then she was Level 4 coordinator in the same Programme. Sabrina has been teaching Principles of Anatomy and Physiology to first year's students for more than 15 years and she has been advocate of the implementation of digital learning tools in the teaching of various disciplines within the Department.

David Tree

Dr David Tree is Reader in Biosciences and Director of Teaching and Learning for Life Sciences at Brunel University London, UK, where he has taught since 2005. He is a developmental geneticist who uses Drosophila genetics to study the genetic, molecular, and cell biological mechanisms controlling patterning during embryonic development and the homeostasis of adult tissues and organs. His current work in the lab focuses on cellular reception and integration of extracellular signals to regulate cell polarity, tissue homeostasis, and aging.

Linda Stewart

Dr Linda Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Linda obtained both her BSc (Joint Honours) in Genetics and Microbiology (1987) and her PhD in Clinical Microbiology (1993) at Queen's University Belfast. Her PhD was based on the gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis and investigations of its antigenic variation in clinical samples.

Angela Mousley

Professor Angela Mousley is based in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.